Just an FYI for CV drivers. According to our safety department, if a cv driver hauls a hazmat load, they are required to log just like any larger truck. That includes the 7 days prior to taking the hazmat load. I was asking if I should get the endorsement, they said no. They went on to explain the log requirements for even cv when having and using the endorsement. How many of us cv drivers could go back 7 days and still be legal?
When you are hauling HAZMAT, you are a Commercial Motor vehicle, so yes, you have to log and scale and all the other things. Logging previous 7 days in a cargo van when you are NOT a CMV, is really pretty easy. If you are not operating a CMV in interstate commerce, you are not subject to hours-of-service regulations. If you are not subject to hours-of-service regulations, you are not required to log.
If, while hauling HAZMAT and logging, you use the 60-hour/7-day schedule (which is what most cargo van drivers should use, unless they haul HAZMAT more than once a week), you must follow the Federal hours-of-service regulations for the next 7 days after you finish operating in interstate commerce. (If you use the 70-hour/8-day schedule, you must follow the Federal hours-of-service regulations for the next 8 days after you finish operating in interstate commerce.) Which means, once you haul HAZMAT, you still need to follow the HoS regulations for 7 days after that and continue to log. Once that week is over, you are no longer required to log at all, until you are once again a CMV. Then it starts all over.
So, if you get a HAZMAT load, and you haven't been required to log at all for at least the previous 7 days, you can show that in your log book as off-duty for all 7 days, because you were. Like I said, it's easy.
